Hey folks, Harry here.... Hollywood Reporter is reporting that ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO is moving ahead being jointly produced by Columbia Pictures and Dimension Films... The most interesting and new detail to the equation that they mention is that Mickey Rourke has joined the cast.... I haven't talked to Robert about who he is playing and the article didn't mention that... but from what I know, I'm willing to bet he's playing the CIA fella.... if you take "THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY" as a structure... Mickey Rourke's character would be "THE BAD". They also mention that Quentin would appear in the movie... This is not for a flashback.
In Robert's mind the EL MARIACHI films are like the Leone EASTWOOD films in that they are not sequels really, just films in a series of westerns that Leone and Eastwood collaborated on.
The Mariachi character is like The Man With No Name... or the One Armed Swordsman.... Or Lone Wolf.... He's an iconic mythic hero with which to play with in different stories and adventures and different tellings. But as a result, even though an actor dies in one, he can play a different character in the next one because this is a different story in a different world about 15 degrees off from the last one.
This is the third Mariachi Tale, but like Ford's Cavalry Trilogy... the some of the actors may be the same, but the parts are different.
Just think of Quentin as Robert's Guinn Big Boy WIlliams!
Also, the article mentions his use of the 24 fp Sony HD camera... From talking to Robert, I would doubt if you will ever see Robert shoot on film again. To Robert, Film is now an outdated hokey religion proven to be bankrupt and faithless... Digital is his new format!
Also Robert mentioned to me that this may be ready as soon as the Holiday season. Ahem.... DAMN.
